Engineering Manager

About the role

Our mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, we help customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust. More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on our end-to-end platform and the world's most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, we help organizations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff. ComplyAdvantage is headquartered in London and has global hubs in New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca. It is backed by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Learn more about compliance re-engineered for the age of AI at complyadvantage.com .

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Engineering Manager to join our innovative Tech Team. You will collaborate across functions, engaging in both the design and implementation of high-performance systems crucial for detecting financial risks.
• As an Engineering Manager, you will:
• Take ownership for your team, being responsible for current team members growth and development, plus hiring and onboarding new team members
• Foster a positive and thriving work environment that promotes innovation.
• Mentor and coach your team, maintaining a learning mindset and openness to new ideas and technologies.
• Set the direction for your team and take accountability for tech decisions.
• Work alongside with your product counterpart, being accountable for delivery against the roadmap.
• Collaborate, both within your team and across the tribe to ensure your team's implementation meets industry standards.
• Report to the Director of Engineering, and will work with the other Engineering Managers in the tribe. Working as a group, you will own cross-team initiatives and improvements.
• Our Tech Stack:
• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP
• Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack
• We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres, Yugabyte
• We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol
• We use modern observability solutions from Grafana Cloud and deploy our code using ArgoCD
• We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers
• About you
• As an Engineering Manager, you will have:
• Proven experience in managing and growing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of engineering best practices, including architecture and testing.
• Past or current experience in a JVM-based language or Python.
• Experience with data-intensive applications and relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).
• Expertise in designing and building microservices.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.
• Experience collaborating with product and commercial teams.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Background in startup or scale-up environments
• If you are passionate about leading teams, driving technical excellence, and working in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you! Join us in creating scalable and efficient systems that make a difference in financial risk detection.

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